Ezra 8:23

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Summary

Ezra 8:23

So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.

We fasted

Acts 10:30

Besought

Jeremiah 29:12

Jeremiah 33:3

Jeremiah 50:4

And he was intreated

Bible References

We fasted

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel assembled with fasting, in sackcloth and with dirt upon them.

“Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

Cornelius said, “Four days ago to this hour, I was praying in my house during the ninth hour; and behold, a man stood before me in shining garments,

Besought

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

“In those days and at that time,” declares the Lord, “the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah as well; they will go along weeping as they go, and it will be the Lord their God they will seek.

And he was intreated

Then we journeyed from the river Ahava on the twelfth of the first month to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was over us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the ambushes by the way.

But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.

They were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hand; for they cried out to God in the battle, and He answered their prayers because they trusted in Him.

When he was in distress, he entreated the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

If I

regard wickedness in my heart,

The Lord will not hear;

The Lord will strike Egypt, striking but healing; so they will return to the Lord, and He will respond to them and will heal them.

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

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Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.